The Best of Best Practices: Critical Success Factors for Identifying and Measuring Industry-Leading Management Solutions

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Louis Carter

In today's uncertain economic climate, the ability to identify effective and actionable solutions to business challenges is more crucial than ever to the strategic management process. When there are substantial problems to be solved, best practice benchmarking providers... More »

Boosting Performance Through Self-Efficacy

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Golnaz Sadri

Self-efficacy is the belief a person holds about whether or not he can successfully attain a desired level of performance. In his studies of self-efficacy, psychologist Albert Bandura demonstrated how the concept relates to human motivation, performance accomplishments,... More »

Brain Break: Understanding the Influence of Brain Functions on Organizational Effectiveness

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Ken Buch

Today's methods of conducting business impede employee productivity. Many organizations operate with incredibly high expectations for creating quality deliverables in an unreasonably short period of time. Employees are expected, or even required, to work long hours with... More »

Whole Brain Thinking: Ignore It at Your Peril

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Ann Herrmann-Nehdi

Thirty years ago, a high-potential manager in a training class at General Electric's corporate university listened as my father, Ned Herrmann, then head of GE's management education, discussed research he was developing on how the brain affects day-to-day operations. St... More »

Overcoming Barriers and Valuing Evaluation

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Laleh Patel

Findings from the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) and the Institute for Corporate Productivity's (i4cp) study, The Value of Evaluation, highlight that progress is being made in measurement practices, as the pursuit of excellent learning evaluation... More »